1 Thessalonians 5:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I charge you by the Lord — Christ, to whom proper divine worship is here paid. That this epistle — The first he wrote. Be read to all the brethren — That is, in all the churches. They might have concealed it out of modesty, had not this been so solemnly enjoined: but what Paul commands under so strong an adjuration, Rome forbids under pain of excommunication.